From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:48:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 10 of 16] stop useless vm trashing while we wait the TIF_MEMDIE task to exit In-Reply-To: <24250f0be1aa26e5c6e3.1181332988@v2.random> Message-ID: References: <24250f0be1aa26e5c6e3.1181332988@v2.random> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > There's no point in trying to free memory if we're oom. OOMs can occur because we are in a cpuset or have a memory policy that restricts the allocations. So I guess that OOMness is a per node property and not a global one. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org